Disturbing Things That I Have Seen

I'm a woman of few words lately. Solution? Pictures. I wanted to share with you a few things that I have seen over the past few days that have disturbed me in some way.

First up - The Oak Farms Cow.

Yesterday I was picking up a sign order from a rather industrial area. I hadn't realized the Oak Farms plant was across the street until I came upon this huge cow on a trailer in their lot.

What you cannot see in this picture (my poor Blackberry camera was at its zooming limitations and although I love y'all, I wasn't going to scale a barbed wire fence) was the physical specificity with which they constructed the udder.

The veins. The teats. I threw up in my mouth. I drew you a picture so that you can understand the true horror of this milking monstrosity:

Seriously, if you ever have a need for an anatomically correct cow, let me know and I'll give you the address.

Next up - Transgendered Midol:

I was having severe female issues yesterday. Perhaps it's the stress that I've been under, or the fact that haven't eaten a vegetable in five weeks. Either way, I headed to Target to inundate my blood stream with pain killers. I looked at the labels, pondered my options, and then just grabbed anything.

As a responsible drug-taker, I did look at the back label to determine whether I needed to be careful about anything (given the massive dose I was planning on taking). And yes, there was a warning that needed to be noted. But let me say this...if you have this issue, AND you are taking Midol, I think the side effects are the least of your concerns:

See that? Under "Ask your doctor before use if you have...". Yes, a prostate problem. And your period. At the same time.

Last up - Texas Storms:

Austin and the surrounding areas got slammed last night with a storm (much like our friends in DFW the night before). The sky scared the heck out of me. So I decided to race out, into the wind, rain and lightning, to see if my new camera would capture the clouds rolling in:

Turns out that as I was outside playing Ansel Adams, a tornado was touching down not so far away. Fun! Our poor doggies were freaking out, but the storm ended and we were safe. I ventured back outside (because clearly, I had learned my lesson) to see if my sunroof had been destroyed by the golf ball size hail,*** and what touched my toe?

He's hard to spot because basically, I suck at using my new camera. Interesting aspect of frogs? He sat there while I took at least 43 photos of him. He hit the road when Murphy ventured outside to sniff his butt in cross-species greeting.
***I just need to give a shout-out (as I did on Twitter last night) to those devoted Texans that NOT only ran out to their yard to grab the hail, AND took pictures, AND sent them immediately into their local weather station...but ALSO had a golf-ball or baseball handy in include in the picture for a complete scale. Thank you Honorary Meteorologists From Hell - you should definitely be the next Real Men of Genius.